Special dishes

  • Restaurants with wild garlic dishes on their menu in London

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    Ramsons, wild garlic - call it what you will this forager's favourite is all across London menus at the moment. We've picked a selection of restaurants serving it up right now.

  • One-offs, collabs, special dishes and limited editions in London's restaurants

    Singburi's Gaeng Pizza Gang at Yard Sale Pizza

    One-offs, limited editions, special menus and more are hitting London restaurants all the time. We'll be updating this page regularly with the very best special new dishes as they appear, so you can make sure to grab them before they're gone.  

  • Real Housewives of Clapton have a January special with Yard Sale pizza

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    If their Insta feed was literally the only thing keeping you sane over the Christmas hols, then you'll be glad to hear that meme mistress The Real Housewives of Clapton now comes in pizza form.

    The Insta account has teamed up with Yard Sale Pizza for a January collab that is 100% something we can get behind. The Glut & Glory is "a half-and-half 18” monster" that will work whether you're hitting 2024 on a health kick or carrying on as

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  • London's 2023 Christmas food specials - pizzas, wontons, cookies and more...

    London's 2023 Christmas food specials - pizzas, wontons, cookies and more...

    From brussels sprout pizzas to chestnut wontons and turkey empanadas - it's time for our guide to all the Christmassy specials that are hitting London restaurants now.

  • Shake Shack are doing an Ikoyi burger - for one day only

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    One of London's best restaurants is going into business with US burger folk Shake Shack for a one-day-only special. Two Michelin-starred restaurant Ikoyi (also No 35 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants List) normally costs £300 per person if you want to eat there. But for a single day, anyone can pop into Shake Shack and order the burger they've collaborated on.

    The Ikoyi burger will be a cheeseburger topped with

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  • Yard Sale and Chuku's are teaming up for a jollof-base pizza

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    Having hit the news for securing a $10k donation from Beyoncé after she performed just up the road, Tottenham restaurant Chuku's is keeping up the heat with a new collaboration with Yard Sale Pizza. And we'll confess, we fancy this a LOT.

    The ‘Lagos Heat’ pizza, which hits Yard Sale's Tottenham and Walthamstow branches this month is topped with spicy, smoked Lamb Asun (peppered with ginger, garlic, red

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  • Where to get coronation chicken in London's restaurants

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    It's the dish that was created back in 1953 for the late Queen's coronation lunch. Now coronation chicken is a ubiquitous part of any summer buffet spread. For the upcoming Coronation festivities, we've done some digging to find out which restaurants are serving up special twists on it this week.

  • Easter specials at London's restaurants, bakeries and cafes

    easter specials at london restaurants and cafes

    This Easter London's chefs, bakers and mixologists have been inspired to create some very special seasonal dishes and drinks. Here's what's on offer.

  • You can get A Stranger Things sushi at Sushi Shop

    A Stranger Things sushi box crossover has come to Sushi Shop

    We're some way from the final season of Stranger Things arriving but there are little things to keep us going in the meantime. As well as an upcoming London play fans are about to get a special sushi box inspired by the show. 

    Yes, Sushi Shop is teaming up with Netflix and is launching The Upside Down Box in all of its UK shops. For a limited time only (that's six weeks), there

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  • Mince on toast is back for The Quality Chop House's 10th birthday

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    Although it's arguably one of its best known dishes, the famous mince on dripping toast isn't always on the menu at the Quality Chop House.

    The dish itself went viral in 2017 when a video on the US site Eater proclaimed it to be a 'quintessential British comfort classic' - a claim that many, including reviewer Jay Rayner, ...

  • Top Cuvee teams up with Baban's Naan for both T-shirt and special naan

    Top Cuvee teams up with Baban's Naan for both T-shirt and special naan

    News arrives today that two of our favourite locals, Top Cuvee and the mighty Baban's Naan have just announced a team-up. 

    If you're unfamiliar with Baban's Naan, it does what it says on the tin. The Kurdish shop sells all types of naan, made fresh to order and they are without question the best naan bread we've ever had (and so, SO cheap too). For this collab, Top Cuvee

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  • Din Tai Fung picks Selfridges for its beef dumpling world launch

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    If you consider yourself to be something of a dumpling aficionado, then you're going to want to put 1 August in your diary. That's when Din Tai Fung are launching their brand new beef xiao long bao and Londoners are going to be the first to try it.

    The new beef dumplings are being revealed at the Din Tai Fung restaurant in Selfridges on Oxford Street. They'l ll be joining the classic pork and crab and pork dumplings

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  • TikTok famous chef Thomas Straker has created a burger for Patty & Bun

    TikTok famous chef Thomas Straker has created a burger for Patty & Bun

    He's absolutely massive on Instagram and TikTok and now chef Thomas Straker, who's opening his own restaurant in London this summer, is teaming up with Patty & Bun.

    The chef, who's previously worked at Heston Blumenthal’s Dinner and Elystan Street, went big on social during the early stages of the lockdown with a ...

  • Max's Sandwich Shop teams up with Burger & Lobster for two very special rolls

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    Well here's a collab we can 100% endorse - Max Halley of the legendary Max's Sandwich Shop is teaming up with Burger & Lobster for two lobster roll specials that are hitting the group's nine restaurants.

    The first, the Lobster Cocktail Roll, is a brioche roll stuffed with lobster claw and knuckle meat with a retro Marie Rose sauce that's finished with a dash of tabasco and brandy. That's topped with

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  • Duckgate - how Westerns Laundry's duck neck dish went viral

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    It's the dish that made a North London restaurant go viral this week. When Westerns Laundry put up a shot of their stuffed duck neck on their Instagram page, they presumably never thought the story would be discussed as far away as India.

    The Mail, Sun and Mirror all picked up on the story, triggered by one of the

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